Funded in part by the Florida Citrus Production Research Advisory Council, a citrus grower industry organization, the project is expected to assist geneticists and breeders improve these important fruit crops. The assembled and annotated genomes have been added to the publicly available database Phytozome.net, a project of the DOE JGI and the Center for Integrative…
Citrus Genomes project on TMCnet.com
The sweet orange joins the growing list of plant genomes sequenced using next-generation 454 Sequencing Systems. Throughout just the last year, international research teams announced the draft sequences of the apple, cassava, soybean, wheat, wild strawberry, and cacao genomes, representing some of the most economically important crops for global food supply. Read more on TMCnet.com.
Citrus Genomes Announcement on Enhanced Online News
Researchers from the International Citrus Genomics Consortium announced this weekend at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XIX conference in San Diego, California the availability of the sequence assembly and annotation of the first citrus genomes, the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and the Clementine mandarin (Citrus clementina). The sweet orange genome was sequenced and analyzed…
Citrus Genome Sequences on GenomeWeb Daily News
For the sweet orange sequencing project, which was spearheaded by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, the University of Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and 454 Life Sciences, the team used the Roche 454 GS FLX and FLX Titanium platforms to tackle the 320 million base genome of the Ridge…
“The Future of Fuel” talk in the Contra Costa Times
The discussion is designed to inform the public about cutting-edge biofuels research under way in the Bay Area and to bolster understanding of the technology, which has legions of supporters and critics. “It’s good for us to understand, through questions and answers, where the community is,” said Jim Bristow, deputy director of JGI, which is…
UC Berkeley’s CNR reports Cheryl Kerfeld’s ASBMB Award
“The integration of bona fide research and development of critical thinking skills into undergraduate education has no greater or more effective advocate than Cheryl Kerfeld,” said Kathleen Scott, an associate professor at the University of South Florida, who supported Kerfeld’s nomination for the award. Colleagues underscore that Kerfeld has pushed the envelope for education both…
A highly adaptable bacterium that can thrive alone or in symbiosis
Variovorax paradoxus is a β-proteobacterium typically found in the region where the plant roots interact with soil and has the ability to engage in mutually beneficial interactions with both plants and other bacterial species. The bacterium also has the ability to break down a wide range of contaminants including pesticides and crude oil compounds, and…
Berkeley Lab’s requirements for second campus in San Francisco Business Times
Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley. Read more in the…
DOE JGI’s CSP projects in GenomeWeb Daily News
JGI said its action follows the exponential increase of its sequence output in recent years. Just over the past year, the institute’s sequencing output has leapt to 6 terabytes, up from 1 terabyte at the end of the 2009 fiscal year.“We’re really interested in undertaking projects that either require specific upfront molecular biology, very large…
DOE JGI in Science’s Insights of the Decade
Edward Rubin and Len Pennacchio of the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and colleagues figured out that some of this conserved DNA helps regulate genes, sometimes from afar, by testing it for function in transgenic mouse embryos. Studies by the group and others suggested that noncoding regions were littered with much more regulatory…